1. Can you lose weight by eating watermelon?
Watermelon is full of water, and the amino acids it contains have diuretic effect, which helps to eliminate excess water in the body, maintain the normal operation of the kidneys, eliminate body edema, increase urine output, make toxins and salts in the body excrete smoothly, improve body metabolism, eat watermelon in moderation every day, reduce the intake of other foods, and have an effect on tightening muscles.
2. What nutrients can be slimmed down?
The active acid in watermelon can transform ammonia in human body into urea and excrete it, which has antioxidant and cosmetic effects. Tannic acid does play a slimming role in watermelon. When the human body ingests excessive carbohydrates, these carbohydrates will not only fail to maintain the ability of daily activities, but will become neutral fat, and tannic acid can quickly decompose and burn neutral fat, thus achieving the purpose of losing weight. In addition to the above elements, potassium in watermelon can solve the edema caused by excessive liquid storage. Watermelon contains a lot of crude fiber, which helps to promote large intestine peristalsis and relieve constipation.
It is not advisable to eat too much.
The middle part of watermelon contains more sugar, so eat less middle part of watermelon when eating watermelon. You should lose weight, but you can't eat more watermelons. Watermelon with normal sweetness contains 5% sugar, so it will bring higher calories; In addition, watermelon is cold, and eating too much at a time is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and indigestion should eat less, so as not to cause abdominal distension, diarrhea and loss of appetite; In addition, if you eat too much watermelon, the gastric juice will be diluted by a lot of water, which will easily lead to indigestion and decreased gastrointestinal resistance.
4. Can I lose weight at any time?
The answer is wrong. Watermelon contains a lot of sugar. If you eat too much watermelon before going to bed at night, the insulin in your body will rise, which is easy to promote fat synthesis. Most of the fat is stored in your abdomen. At night, our exercise is reduced, and fat light storage can't be consumed. After a long time, eating watermelon not only has no weight loss effect, but you will find that a small belly will grow unconsciously.
5. Can watermelon be eaten as dinner?
Although watermelon has the advantages of diuresis, edema elimination and weight loss. However, the nutritional components of watermelon are very single, except for a small amount of protein and cellulose, the rest are sugars, and the normal metabolism of human body can not lack protein and various nutrients every day, so if you want to use watermelon instead of three meals a day to achieve the effect of losing weight, this method is not desirable.
6. Watermelon is eaten this way to lose weight.
Squeeze the pulp without watermelon seeds, boil the squeezed watermelon juice with slow fire, then turn to medium heat for half an hour to 40 minutes, pour the boiled watermelon juice into a bottle, seal it, put it in the refrigerator, and drink it twice a day, about 50 ml each time. If you think watermelon juice is too sweet, you can also add some water to dilute watermelon juice.
7. Precautions for eating watermelon
1, don't eat too much, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach and cause pharyngitis.
Watermelon is a cold product, and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, dyspepsia and loose stool should eat less, while eating more will lead to abdominal distension, diarrhea, loss of appetite, accumulation of cold and dampness, leading to diseases. Eating too much watermelon at a time will dilute gastric juice, cause indigestion and decrease gastrointestinal resistance.
Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold.
Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold, otherwise it will aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. Both wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold belong to exterior syndrome in the early stage, so we should treat them with divergent methods to solve the pathogenic factors from the exterior. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that exterior and interior are not attacked, otherwise exterior evil will enter the interior, and the condition will be aggravated. In the early stage of a cold, eating watermelon is equivalent to eating drugs that clear away heat from the interior surface, which will lead to the entry of pathogenic factors, aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. However, when the cold gets worse and there are fever symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat and yellow urine, you can eat some watermelons while taking normal drugs, which is helpful for the recovery of the cold.
Don't eat watermelons that have been open for too long.
When the temperature is high, watermelon is easy to deteriorate after being opened for a long time, which will breed germs and lead to intestinal infectious diseases. Therefore, when eating watermelon, we should pay attention to choosing ripe fresh watermelon.
4, people with renal insufficiency should not eat.
Eating a lot of watermelon in a short period of time will increase the water in the body, which exceeds the physiological capacity of the human body. In patients with renal insufficiency, the ability of kidney to regulate water is greatly reduced, and too much water entering the body can not be regulated and excreted, resulting in a sharp increase in blood volume and easy death due to acute heart failure.
5, oral ulcers do not eat.
The main causes of oral ulcer are internal heat due to yin deficiency, disturbance of virtual fire and burning of flesh and blood veins. Watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcer eat more watermelon, the water normally needed in the body will be discharged through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of insufficient vaginal fluid. Yin deficiency will increase internal heat and aggravate oral ulcer.
6. Diabetic patients need to eat watermelon in moderation.
The sugar content of watermelon is about 5%, mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose, which means that eating watermelon will increase blood sugar. Normal people can keep their blood sugar and urine sugar at a normal level because they can secrete insulin in time. People with diabetes are different. Eating too much watermelon in a short time will not only increase blood sugar, but also lead to acidosis and even life-threatening due to metabolic disorder. The daily intake of carbohydrates (carbohydrates) by diabetics needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if you eat watermelon many times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) accordingly, so as not to aggravate your illness. If you eat 25-50 grams of watermelon at a time, it will have little effect on diabetics, so diabetics should pay attention to the right amount of watermelon.
7. Mothers should not eat more watermelons.
Maternal physique is relatively weak, Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will be too cold and damage the spleen and stomach.
Watermelon should not be eaten before and after meals, because a large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach and affect the digestion and absorption of food, and eating watermelon in large quantities before meals will occupy the volume of the stomach and greatly reduce the intake of various nutrients, especially for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. For people who want to lose weight by dieting, eating watermelon before meals is a good way to reduce their food intake.
8. Eat less iced watermelons.
Although eating iced watermelon on a hot day has a good effect of relieving summer heat, it is very irritating to the stomach and is easy to harm the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to grasping the delicious temperature and quantity. Watermelon is best placed on the lowest floor of the refrigerator, where the temperature is about 8- 10℃, and the temperature is also the best. Don't eat more than 500 grams of watermelon at a time. Chew slowly. For people with dental caries (tooth decay) and tooth allergies, they will feel sour and painful after catching a cold, and people with poor gastrointestinal function are not suitable for eating iced watermelons.
9. Watermelon is a fruit with high sugar content, which can be easily converted into fat, which is not good for health.
You can eat less sugary parts of watermelon and choose red and white watermelon skins to eat; Moreover, it is not suitable for eating watermelon after 9 pm, and it is easy to grow a lower abdomen and a small belly; You can even cook with watermelon skin in summer, such as cold watermelon skin: take watermelon skin with slightly red flesh, remove the outermost hard skin, cut it into small pieces, and then add sugar, salt and various seasonings according to your own taste, which is not only refreshing, but also beautiful and slimming.
10, watermelon must be washed before eating.
After washing the watermelon, cut it with a clean knife and you can eat it. Never cut the melon without washing the knife. Don't eat melon pulp bitten by mosquitoes, flies, etc. To prevent the disease from entering the mouth.